Nuance Communications, a provider of speech
solutions, today unveiled a prototype for voice search
capabilities shown on the Apple iPhone.
Through Nuance speech recognition
servers, mobile consumers with no training required can simply speak requests into their phone like, "Find Starbucks in Los Angeles 90010" Score of the Boston Celtics game, or Play Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds"
to quickly and accurately search the mobile web or in the future
dictate an IM, SMS or e-mail message.
The prototype, code-named for open voice search, will allow mobile user to offer simple 'say anything' search capabilities and is search engine agnostic, able to link to any search engine of an operators choosing.
Other Examples of Nuance Services
Device Control
Speech and
advanced predictive text input methods allow users to vault past
complex menus to directly access device features like dialing a call or
launching a playlist.
For example:
Press a button, say: "Call Mom's Mobile, and simply be connected.
Press
a button, say: "Play Rehab Song" and watch your MP3 enabled phone find
the song, launch the song player and play music. Just like that…
Mobile Messaging
With
speech and its advanced predictive text technologies, Nuance mobile
messaging solutions let users enter text for email, SMS or IM in a
simple and intuitive way: By voice. For example:
Say "Send email to Mark
Smith... Mark, a car service will pick you up at LAX today at 3pm" or
"Send SMS to Ian Griffith...'Ian, let's meet in the client's lobby to
discuss the presentation 20 minutes after noon today." Then, "Send
message."